The 2020-21 Budget: Improving the State's Unpaid Wage Claim Process

Feb 19, 2020 - Increasing hearing staff by about 50  percent should notably reduce wage claim delays. The administration expects the 50  percent staff increase to reduce claim duration by 50   percent —from 400 days to 200 days, as shown earlier in Figure  3.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4165

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - Employees who are identified as being “remote centered ” are eligible to receive $50 per month. Employees who are identified as “office centered ” are eligible to receive $25 per month. Under the telework stipend program, the MOU specifies that “no reimbursement claims will be authorized for utilities, phone, cable/internet, or other telework incurred costs. ” Executive Order N-22-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 10 (Professional Scientists) and 18 (Psychiatric Technician)

Sep 9, 2025 - (The stipend provides remote-centered workers $50 per month and office-centered workers $25 per month.) Unit 18 Term. The proposed agreement would be in effect through July 1, 2028. This means that the agreement would be in effect for three fiscal years: 2025-26, 2026-27, and 2027-28.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

Federal Paid Leave for Workers Impacted by COVID-19

Mar 27, 2020 - Second, as noted above, businesses with fewer than 50  employees may seek an exemption from the U.S. Department of Labor. Roughly one-quarter of California private-sector employees work for these businesses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4212

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - Under the pay differential, employees who telework more than 50 percent of their time receive $50 per month and employees who telework more than 0 percent but less than 50 percent of their time received $25 per month.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 7 (Protective Services and Public Safety)

Jun 24, 2016 - The current MOU provides Unit 7 members who have attained specified educational degrees or certifications either $50 or $100 each month. Specifically, employees who possess (1) an Intermediate POST Certificate or equivalent or an associate degree receive $50 and (2) an Advanced POST Certificate or equivalent or a bachelor degree receive $100.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3486

California's Unemployment Insurance Program: Gaining Insight Through Comparison to Other States [Publication Details]

Oct 13, 2011 - In this report, we conduct a comparative analysis of the UI programs in all 50 states and Washington D.C. to provide context for the Legislature in considering potential solutions to California's UI insolvency.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2526

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists)

Jul 14, 2025 - Since January 1, 2022, Unit 16 employees who have an approved telework agreement on file with their department are eligible to receive $50 per month if they are identified as a remote centered employee or $25 per month if they are identified as an office centered employee.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - For example, CAAP noted that when the San Francisco City and County Employees Retirement System implemented a DROP, members entered DROP at rates 50  percent to 75  percent higher than the system had assumed would occur.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 2 (Attorneys and Hearing Officers)

Aug 29, 2016 - After 15 years of service, these workers would receive 50  percent of the revised maximum state contribution to retirement, with this amount growing each year until it reaches 100  percent of the revised maximum contribution if they retire after 25 or more years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3495